You can find effective team building and morale-boosting activities and rewards at just about any budget. This article outlines a few ideas on how you can boost employee morale and keep teams working hard all year long.
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Three Ideas to Boost Employee Retention
Learn what causes employees to stay or leave and how you can tip the balance to keeping your employees engaged and energized!
How Many Current Employees are in Your Departure Lounge?
Nobody likes to talk about it, even though it is happening in workplaces all across America – employees who have decided it is time to fly the coop. Departure lounges are overflowing with these types of employees – all waiting for their final boarding call.
Valuing Contribution: A Uniquely Powerful Component of Corporate Culture
A successful organisation maintains a corporate culture of valuing – demonstrating timely and proportionate appreciation of employee endeavours through leaders’ instinctive recognition of individual contributions. The resultant commitment engendered in the workforce then plays a sizable role in the realisation of corporate goals.
Effective Mentoring Program for Leadership Development
Many organizations have discovered providing a mentor for high performing employees not only helps them settle into their job and company environment, but also contributes to a lower employee turnover rate and greater job satisfaction.
The Power of Welcome Home
Remember: home is not given but made. What will you do to make your work a place in which people feel welcomed home?
Want to Motivate Like a Good CEO? Here’s How
As human beings, we all want to have a purpose. We want our lives to matter. Purpose is what allows us to discover who we really are, to put meaning in our work, and to discover our talents, skills, and sources of genuine satisfaction.
Principles of Effective Motivation
Having a highly motivated workforce is critical to compete in today’s marketplace. Managers need to provide an environment that triggers motivated behavior. Pay attention to what’s important to the person. As Will Rodgers said, “When you go fishing, you bait the hook not with what you like, but with what the fish likes.”
How to Attract, Keep and Motivate Today’s Workforce
Employers face major challenges when they consider the increasing difficulty of finding skilled people, a younger workforce with different attitudes about work, and a growing population of older workers heading toward retirement.
Leading Your Workforce During an Economic Crisis
If you want your organization to be a place the best and the brightest will want to work in the future, you must be careful what you do in the here and now.